Pragati Rai. All Photos: MONIKA DEUPALAAs a child, Pragati Rai was called fattyauri, someone who would not stop talking. “I did not like that…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALABorn in 1978 in Tehrathum, Bimala Tumkhewa is not an unfamiliar name in Nepal’s literary scene. Popular for her…
If you like Nepali folk songs, you must have come across a hirsute man on Youtube, singing old, familiar songs with an unusual accent and lilt.…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAWhen Usha Sherchan talks about Pokhara, where she grew up, she gets a faraway look in her eyes. Everywhere around us were…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALABorn in 1971 into an aristocratic Rana-Shah family in Kathmandu, Nibha Shah spent most of her early childhood in Kailali,…
Photos: SIKUMA RAI“When the stalks of rice grow taller, you must come back here again,” she says. “They move in the wind like waves in the…
Photos: MONIKA DEUPALAWhen I first saw Toya Gurung's name in an anthology of poems, I thought she had to be Japanese. I had known of no Gurung…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYmgDIkIIEwLike many Nepali housemothers, Bhimi Gurung spent her life preparing three meals a day and bringing…
